The Origin of PriesthoodEkenaes printing Company, limited, 1905 - 217 sider |
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Side 50
... considered to become spirits , and deformed and insane persons are also often referred after death to the same class of beings . The sudden interruption of life , without any subsequent propitiation of the spirit , seems to give rise to ...
... considered to become spirits , and deformed and insane persons are also often referred after death to the same class of beings . The sudden interruption of life , without any subsequent propitiation of the spirit , seems to give rise to ...
Side 62
... considered not only as their priest but as their chief or head . " Also with regard to the Kookies in North Cashar , we learn that their headman » is much more of a priest than a potentate . » Among the Manobo , a Philippine tribe , the ...
... considered not only as their priest but as their chief or head . " Also with regard to the Kookies in North Cashar , we learn that their headman » is much more of a priest than a potentate . » Among the Manobo , a Philippine tribe , the ...
Side 64
... considered a religious duty which is in charge of one of the highest chiefs . 2 The New Zealanders esteem the families of the chiefs to be more sacred than others , because they are under the special care of the most powerful Atua , or ...
... considered a religious duty which is in charge of one of the highest chiefs . 2 The New Zealanders esteem the families of the chiefs to be more sacred than others , because they are under the special care of the most powerful Atua , or ...
Side 96
... considered that the spirits gave the wizards their powers . Some of the Warramunga doctors , as well as those of the Binbinga and Mara tribes , are in the same way appointed by the spirits . 1 2 So , too , the power of curing illness ...
... considered that the spirits gave the wizards their powers . Some of the Warramunga doctors , as well as those of the Binbinga and Mara tribes , are in the same way appointed by the spirits . 1 2 So , too , the power of curing illness ...
Side 98
... considered him , therefore , as setting his mark upon those whom he chose to be his priests . » > 1 Regarding the Itonama Indians , on the other hand , who also worshipped the jaguar , we read : >> When a man , after a long journey ...
... considered him , therefore , as setting his mark upon those whom he chose to be his priests . » > 1 Regarding the Itonama Indians , on the other hand , who also worshipped the jaguar , we read : >> When a man , after a long journey ...
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Side 8 - I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
Side 120 - Those who aspire to the office of juggler are said to sit upon an aged willow, overhanging some lake, and to abstain from food for several days, till they begin to see into futurity.
Side 172 - In magic man depends on his own strength to meet the difficulties and dangers that beset him on every side. He believes in a certain established order of nature on which he can surely count, and which he can manipulate for his own ends.
Side 85 - It was remarked in Scotland : ' There is one opinion which many of them entertain, .... that a popish priest can cast out devils and cure madness, and that the Presbyterian clergy have no such power.
Side 154 - There can be little doubt but that the priest, on such occasions, often summons into action the deepest feelings of devotion of which he is susceptible, and by a voluntary act disposes his mind, as much as possible, to be powerfully affected; till at length, what began by volition proceeds by involuntary effort, and the whole mind and body become subjected to the overruling emotion.
Side 104 - The term fahe-gehe means split off, separate, or distinct from, and is applied to signify a priest, or man, who has a peculiar or distinct sort of mind or -soul, differing from that of the generality of mankind, which disposes some god occasionally to inspire him.
Side 57 - There is no priestly order, and no persons who can properly be called priests. Any man can have access to some object of worship, and most men in fact do have it, either by discovery of their own or by knowledge imparted to them by those who have before employed it. If the object of worship, as in some sacrifices, is one common to the members of a community, the man who knows how to approach that object is in a way their priest and sacrifices for them all ; but it is in respect of that particular...
Side 133 - No less frequently priests and sorcerers who fail in performing miracles save their reputation by accusing other persons of having, by secret necromancies, frustrated their endeavours. Among the aborigines of New South Wales, " although the operations of the rain-maker so often result in failure, he is not in the least discouraged, and, like the doctors, invariably attributes his want of success to the counteracting influence of an enemy.
Side 121 - His imagination is worked upon by solitude, the contemplation of the gloomy aspect of surrounding nature, long vigils, fasts, the use of narcotics and stimulants, until he becomes persuaded that he too has seen the apparitions which he has heard of from his boyhood.